The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Czech: Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

December 8, 2016 - Honeywell Hometown Solutions supports STEM education in the Czech Republic by inviting local middle school science and math teachers to attend the Honeywell Educators at Space Academy and the Honeywell Green Boot Camp in the United States each year ...

December 6, 2016 - In the Kids section, the Swiss-French animated film My Life as a Zucchini will have its English-language world premiere at Sundance amid its ongoing bid for an Academy Award nomination. The film is currently among 27 full-length .... Cries from Syria ...

December 4, 2016 - The paper also cited a recent National Academy of Sciences report that found "little evidence that the introduction of GE crops were resulting in more rapid yearly increases in on-farm crop yields in the United States than had been seen prior to the ...

December 2, 2016 - “The biggest danger of such a secret infertility is that the males are actually taking up the chance for a female to conceive,” says Viola Pavlova, an ecologist with the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic and lead author on the paper. “So it is ...

November 29, 2016 - Sinkholes are like Earth's way of reminding us that no matter how smart we get, it can always mess with us by taking the ground out beneath our feet without a moment's notice. While human-caused sinkholes - like the one that just reopened in Japan ...

November 24, 2016 - In a press conference during the event, Peter Plavčan, from the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, said: 'The fact is it is mainly the newer Member States that are lagging behind the European average, which also ...

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December 9, 2016 - To support the development of microgrids in south-east Asia, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is leading the renewable energy integration demonstrator — Singapore (Reids) project. When fully constructed Reids will be the largest ...

December 7, 2016 - “The operation of this technology, a world's first, is a major milestone for the geothermal industry and a reinforcement of our commitment to innovation and energy efficiency,” said Francesco Venturini, Head of Enel's Global Renewable Energies. “We are ...

December 6, 2016 - It increased the plant's output by 1008MWh between July and September, offsetting energy consumption by 8.8%. Enel operates another hybrid plant in the US that combines geothermal and solar power. "The operation of this technology, a world's first, is ...

December 3, 2016 - Why not exploit the benefits of batteries and super capacitors simultaneously and combine them in some kind of energy hybrid, they asked themselves. In the current issue of scientific journal Nature Materials the group introduces its approach ...

The Academy is the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic. It conducts both fundamental and strategic applied research.

It has three scientific divisions, namely the Division of Mathematics, Physics, and Earth Sciences, Division of Chemical and Life Sciences, and Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Academy currently manages a network of sixty research institutes and five supporting units staffed by a total of 6,400 employees, over one half of whom are university-trained researchers and Ph.D. scientists.

The Head Office of the Academy and forty research institutes are located in Prague, the remaining institutes being situated throughout the country.

Energy hybrid

December 9, 2016 - To support the development of microgrids in south-east Asia, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is leading the renewable energy integration demonstrator — Singapore (Reids) project. When fully constructed Reids will be the largest ...

December 7, 2016 - “The operation of this technology, a world's first, is a major milestone for the geothermal industry and a reinforcement of our commitment to innovation and energy efficiency,” said Francesco Venturini, Head of Enel's Global Renewable Energies. “We are ...

December 6, 2016 - It increased the plant's output by 1008MWh between July and September, offsetting energy consumption by 8.8%. Enel operates another hybrid plant in the US that combines geothermal and solar power. "The operation of this technology, a world's first, is ...

December 3, 2016 - Why not exploit the benefits of batteries and super capacitors simultaneously and combine them in some kind of energy hybrid, they asked themselves. In the current issue of scientific journal Nature Materials the group introduces its approach ...

December 2, 2016 - "In a developed market, you are competing with cheaper forms of conventional power generation, such as gas and also hydro. Energy storage costs still have some way to come down for a hybrid plant like Kennedy Energy Park to be competitive," he said.

December 1, 2016 - SEATTLE - When firefighter paramedics Morlon Malveaux and Mark Pedeferri learned that their powerhorse diesel ambulance was going to be traded for a gas-powered hybrid they were more than a little concerned. The two, who run a Medic One rig ...